Fire Drill at Smith College
史密斯学院（Smith College）有一个公认的消防演习，已经实践了几年，并且反复证明，如果有一个警报，可以在那里清空一个大宿舍，从两到两分钟半分钟弧线许多学生的房子，每个学生都有船长，就像众议院主席一样，由一所房子的学生在9月开业后不久。这些队长主要来自初级阶级，选举一个酋长，一名高年级学生，因此成为这一重要制度的负责人，自然必须是某种人格和权威的女孩，任何时刻都可能成为一个人的地位最高责任。除了选择酋长外，每个房子的船长还从她的特殊房屋中任命学生的船长，从较小的宿舍的地板上的两个到四个或更多的人到较大的宿舍的地板。在大学开幕后不久，在众议院会议上，在众议院会议上向学生阅读了印刷的行动过程规则，以便学生在惊慌失措的情况下意识到他们对他们的期望。在大学期间的头几个月，房屋的消防演习是经常进行的，整年的消防训练通常每月一次。当然，学生不知道何时会发出钻头警报，但通常发生在9:40 p。m。或附近8 a。m。，因为这些时间实际上是所有学生在一起在房子里的唯一一次。 The alarm for a drill is given by an electric bell signal on each floor. The only difference between this and a genuine alarm is that for the latter the emergency bell has an attachment box, to be broken into only in case of actual fire, in which case the electric bell rings continuously. Men of the college working staff visit the houses at intervals to be sure that the bells are in order, and while their ring is different from the fire ring it causes many a momentary start of occupants of the rooms and a resultant certain association of jokt, inevitable when so many fun-loving students are housed together, but which makes it necessary that the fire chief and captains have personal authority enough to keep the students up to standard in the test drills. When the fire hell rings each student is to immediately see that her window is closed and her door open, leaving the door open, she is to pass to the hall and with the other students make the exit in good order and by the rear or front entrance, according to a previously arranged division according to the location of her room. The fire captain is also on hand to supplement these directions or to give necessary orders.
这是艾滋病的特殊职责通过the halls of their designated floors to see that the doors are left open according to rule, and if a door is closed, to open it to see that no one is in the room. In each house fire buckets hang near the water faucets, and those also the aids fill and have ready, that in them each student as she passes along with the line may wet the towel that the drill requires that she bring with her from her room when the alarm sounds. Early in the year also there is a certain amount of gymnasium practise to familiarize every student with the method of managing and descending by the ropes which are in each room. Very familiar among the student notices early in the year are those to students of different divisions reminding them of the hours at which this practise is expected of them in the gymnasium. This and the condition of each house, according to the fire requirements, and all supervision of this sort, is the duty of the fire chief or captain for the college, which office at present is held by Miss Esther Cook, of Troy. N. Y. Smith is fortunate in never having had a serious fire; a remarkable record, when is considered the large numbers of young people housed in small rooms, often gathered together for parties in which light cookery is the feature. More careful house regulations decrease the possibility of fire, but before the prevalence of electric lights there often were open gas jets near windows covered with flimsy drapery, often blowing in the breeze of an open window. Many small fires have started in this way, and many more from chafingdishes; but promptness and coolness of students pearly always puts a stop to these before the department has been run in or the blaze gets any further than scorched or smudged curtains and table linen. College girls are always ready to extract humor from any situation resultant from college regulations, and how the gymnasium practise on the ropes strikes the undergraduate appreciation is indicated by some verses that recently appeared in the College Monthly, entitled "l ire Escapades'”;
